about contibuting to octave

[Ben Abbott]

On Mar 2, 2009, at 11:33 PM, Shai Ayal wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 4:36 AM, xianghang liu  
> <xianghangliu at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I am a C++ developer very interested in Octave and would like to  
>> contribute.
>> I have had a look at projects listed at
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/projects.html. I would like to  
>> contribute
>> numerical  and IO related projects in the list. Would you please  
>> show me a
>> more current copy of this?
> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure it's what you meant by IO related, but the graphics
> system is really in need of a c++ developer. We need someone to
> implement text objects.
> If this interests you, I'm sure Michael and I could help you start out
>
> Shai

Regarding backend text objects, the gnuplot backend needs some work as  
well ... and again a c++ developer is needed. What the gnuplot backend  
needs will also needed by other backends. Specifically, the "extent"  
property for text objects needs to be implemented at a low level (i.e.  
it is a read-only property from the user perspective).

At the present time, "extent" is not part of text object properties.

Ben